Hummus Kitchen raid: Owner says justice not served

Metro

by Dean Balsamini

Justice has yet to be served.

Nicknamed the “Soup Nazi,” this hateful woman who once launched an anti-Semitic tirade at a kosher restaurant, pouring hot soup over staff, still roams the streets despite her identity and location being made public.

According to a source familiar with the investigation, District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who has a soft spot for crime, is “delaying” the creation of an arrest warrant.

“The bulk of the investigation is complete, but the suspect lives in another jurisdiction and we need the district attorney's assistance to issue an arrest warrant,” a source told The Post.

Neighbors and family members said the suspect was identified as Myra Teke of Paterson, New Jersey.

Three days after the incident, The Washington Post met with Teke outside her home in Paterson.

The agitator ignored the reporter and cameraman and advised a neighbor to tell The Washington Post that she had “moved out” of the family's apartment.

But the neatly coiffed, well-dressed blonde bigot was flamboyant in front of the cameras after her twisted rant on Dec. 13 at Hummus Kitchen on Second Avenue on the Upper East Side, in which she tried to pull down an Israeli flag, threw soup at servers and called staff “murderers.”

“I want justice,” Sharon Futa, the Israeli owner of Hummus Kitchen, demanded this week. “I'm troubled that someone attacked my employees and the police know who it was and no one did anything.”

The December tirade began at 9:45 p.m.

45 second video The footage shows vandals trying but failing to pull down the banner, and workers calling police in the confusion.

A second video shows her throwing soup and giving the finger as she heads out.

“He's inside. He's in our awning. It's actually a woman. She's pulling it. [the flag] “She was trying to get off but she was throwing all the chairs at him. She was crazy,” the employee said.

The video of this ugly episode is Post to X, To date, the video has been viewed over 13.5 million times.

Hummus Kitchen was attacked a second time on December 17, when a young woman, who was not Teke, appeared to start an argument without provocation, according to the video.

According to police and shocking video shared on social media, the crazed woman tried to hide the Israeli/US flag, shoved employees, gave staff the middle finger and walked away angrily.

The woman deleted her Instagram account after being identified by the X-account “Stop Antisemitism.”

Her identity could not be confirmed by The Washington Post, and she did not respond to messages.

The New York Police Department's Hate Crimes Task Force is handling the Hummus Kitchen case.

“No arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing,” an NYPD spokesman said Thursday.

That was not the answer Fuuta wanted to hear.

“All the employees were scared. [the first incident]”They were scared to come to work. They're still scared,” he said, adding, “Of course, I [the police] Something needs to be done. Next time it will be much more serious.”

In April, Mr Futa witnessed another Chelsea eatery, ZiZi, being defaced with a swastika.

In that case, he arrived at ZiZi on an April morning to find two hate symbols — one red, one black — spray-painted on the restaurant's outdoor dining shack on Eighth Avenue between 19th and 20th Streets.

Huta opened his first Hummus Kitchen in Hell's Kitchen in 2008, and opened a branch on the Upper East Side between East 83rd and 84th Streets in 2009.